Awards

The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Volunteer Awards.

The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is pleased to announce that eight university students have been selected as recipients of the 2021 CAS Trust Scholarship, an honor created to further students’ interest in the property and casualty actuarial profession and encourage the pursuit of the CAS designations. The scholarship program is funded by donations to the CAS Trust. This year’s awardees are Reiner Atstathi, Olivier Cote, Josh Gordon, Sankar Krishna, Claire Liu, Simon Llaguno, Molly Olander, Ana Romo and Maurice Williams.

The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) selected four universities as recipients of the 2021 CAS University Award, an honor created to celebrate universities that share our commitment to fostering the development of the next generation of property and casualty actuaries.

2021 Honorees include Arizona State University, Brigham Young University, Georgia State University, University of New South Wales

The 2021 Hachemeister Prize has been awarded to the paper “AGLM: A Hybrid Modeling Method of GLM and Data Science Techniques” by Suguru Fujita, Toyoto Tanaka, Kenji Kondo, and Hirokazu Iwasawa. The Hachemeister Prize is awarded annually to ASTIN Bulletin or ASTIN or AFIR Colloquium paper(s) based on several criteria but with emphasis placed on the paper's impact for North American actuaries and its practicality of application.

At this year’s virtual CLRS, September 15-17, two sessions were recognized as the best sessions by attendee evaluations. Most sessions are available as recordings through the University of CAS.